Mask with Antlers for a Horse Head

Created: Pazyryk Culture. 5th century BC

Found: Pazyryk Barrow #1; excavations by M.P. Gryaznov, 1929. Russia, Altai Mountains, Pazyryk Boundary, the Valley of the River Bolshoy Ulagan

Title:

Mask with Antlers for a Horse Head

Epoch. Period:

Archaeological site:

Pazyryk Barrow #1; excavations by M.P. Gryaznov, 1929

Technique:

carved, with applique work

Dimensions:

lenght: of the nose 60 cm; lenght: of antlers 130 cm

Acquisition date:

Entered the Hermitage in 1934; transferred from the Ethnographic Department of the State Russian Museum

Inventory Number:

1295-458

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